Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-22
Germany.
A GERMAN ARREST,


PARIS, April PIN. Schnabel, special
French Commissary al Pagny sur MoselIe
depot, has been arrested by the Germans
The German police commissioner at AIRS
asked him to come to that place and con-
fer with him regarding the frontier ser
vice. While on mis- way to AIS he was
roughly seized by the German police and
taken to Noveant, from which place he
was sent to Metz. The Meter Zeitung
says NJ. SchnabeIs arrest is due to his
connection with the anti-German agita,
ton conducted by the Patriotic League,
but the people Of Pagny sur Moselle de-
clal e this is entirely untrue, and say that
he had nothing to do, with the agitation.
Ire incident has thrown the inhabitants
of Metz and Nancy into the widest state
of excitement.
GERMAN EMIGRATION.
BERLIN, April q An oficial report
upon emigration that has been presented
to the R4ichstag shows that the number
of emigrants from Germany who passed
through Hamburg, Bremen and Stettin
during the year 1886 was &C, $40, or de-
crease OF over 200 from the previous
year. Reports say that on the other hand
emigration from Austris, Hungary, Rus
STA, aud Sweden and Norway, through
the same ports in 1886, was largely in ex-
cess of that of 1885. Most of the emf
grants were from the farming districts of
Prussia.
THE ECCLESIASTICAL BILL.
BERLIN, April 2l.-The ecclesiastical
bill passed in the lower house Of the
Prussian Diet to-day. The National Lib
erals, the Pr0gressists and a few Conser-
yatives voted against the measure. The
Centre party, DR.. Windhtorst said, will
renew the fight against the government
if at any time Catholic interests were
affected.
Prince Bismarck was in the house when
the bill passed. Before the vote was
taken Prince Bismarck declared if the
bill was rejected he would abandon his
office as President of the Ministry of
State for Prussia and devote his entire
time to the service of the empire.
Herr Richter condemned the bill be-
cause he said, the provisions regarding
the right of confirmation and protest by
the state in ecclesiastical appointments
would promote severity. He protested
against the action Of the Pope IN int. fer
ing in the elections for membership in the
Relchstsg.
Prince Bismarck declared Herr Richter
was more Catholic than the Pope, and
added: 1t must be admitted that in the
eyes Of German Catholics the papacy is no
foreign institution. The result of the cleo
tions would have been the same with
or without the opposition of the Center
lists. The result of the elections was not
the outcome of anxiety, but the ex-
preston of evaporation at the attitude
of the opposition under Herr Richter.
The point al issue was not to combat q
political group, but to secure the pre-
servation of the Empire from Injury, and
that | desired to form majority for my
self was quite natural. All the national
parties should endeavor to meet. the
Curia so far as it was compatible
with state rights. This is feasible by the
adoption of the present bib as it has passed
crease the governments arduOus task. II
acted in accordance with my political
convictions. The bill conceGes nothing
that will endanger the states authority. |
Prince Bismarck then appealed to the
members of the national parties not to
reject the bill. The moment was favor
able for the conclusion of peace
in the religious war that had
so long been Waged in Germany.
He declared that portion of his influ-
ence in Europe rested on confidence in
his political honesty and the trustworthi- !
ness of his representation to the German
people.
Professor Virchow opposed the bill as